Dear all,
the IFIP treasurer (Dipak Khakhar, email see below) has presented
the TC budgets (see annex) and in particular the DCSC (developing country
support committee) funds for 2005.
*** If a TC6 conference wants to get a support from DCSC
then the organisor should send a request as soon as possible
to Dipak (deadline August 16) with a copy to me. ***
DCSC could be interesting for (at least) the following conferences in 2005:
Working Conference on Networking for Metropolitan Area Networks;
Working Conference on Electronic Government
WG 6.2 + 6.11;
March 28 - 31, 2005; Ho-Chi-Minh City (Vietnam);
Open Conference; 7th Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications
Networks (MWCN'05)
WG6.2 + WG6.8 + IEEE
Fall, 2005; Marrakesh (Morocco);
Email contact: Hamid Aghvami
Best regards
Otto
---------------- Anfang Weiterleitung ----------------
Betreff: TC-budgets and DCSC fund
Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. August 2004 10:23 Uhr
Von: Dipak Khakhar <dipak.khakhar(a)ics.lu.se>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Please find the TCs budget in the attachment.
Please note that I have budgeted 20000 EUR for DCSC grants for year 2005
in IFIP budget.
I am looking forward to grant requests from you, if possible before 16 August
so that I can put approved grant in DCSC report.
Please note that the same condition as previous years applies to the grant.
That is to developing country which are full members of IFIP.
>kind regards,
Dipak
----------------- Ende Weiterleitung -----------------
-----Original Message-----
From: Gabriella Batai (ETH) [mailto:Gabriella.Batai@eth.ericsson.se]
Sent: quarta-feira, 14 de Maio de 2003 13:50
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Subject: Forthcoming IFIP TC 6 Meeting
Dear Our Guests,
The venue of the next TC6 meeting will be Ericsson's premises in Budapest,
Hungary.
Address: Budapest, Irínyi József u. 4-20. , XI. district
The meeting room is on the ground floor (for English people first floor)
close to the reception.
As you have probably known on Sunday evening there will be a boat trip on
the River Danube.
Please indicate whether you have an accompaning person with you who will
also take part in this evening program.
I kindly ask you to let me know if you have special food request (vegetarian
or other).
If you have not reserved your hotel room yet, please do it. Most of you
will stay at Hotel Korona.
(If you choose Hotel Korona please indicate that you come to Ericsson, to
the IFIP TC6 meeting, because the 88 EUs price is a special Ericsson rate).
You can find the requested information about the hotels below.
If you need help with the hotel booking or any other matters please do not
hesitate to contact me.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Budapest!
Best regards
Gabriella
----------------------
Gabriella Bátai
Assistant
Research Laboratory
Ericsson Hungary Ltd.
H-1117 Budapest
Irinyi J. u. 4-20.
Tel: +36 1 437 7701
Fax:+36 1 437 7672
E-mail: Gabriella.Batai(a)eth.ericsson.se
HOTEL MERCURE KORONA
Highly recommended.
To reach Ericsson Hungary at Science Park:
- 15 minutes by public transport one stop by metro line 3 to Ferenc
körút, than change tram 4 or 6 towards Buda side - three stops.
- 10 minutes by car / taxi
Location of Hotel
In the heart of the City of Budapest, opposite the National Museum.
Strolling in the City you can reach the bank of the Danube within 5
minutes.
Room rate: 88 EUR/ night
Access
>From the airport:
The main road to the City leads straight to the hotel. Distance approx.
18 km.
>From railway stations:
>From Déli (Southern) and Keleti (Eastern) railway stations by metro line
2 (red), change at Deák tér for line 3 (blue line) to Kálvin tér.
By car:
>From Vienna or Lake Balaton along motorways M1 and M7, respectively,
crossing the Danube via Elisabeth Bridge.
By public transport:
Tramways 47, 49, bus 15 and metro line 3, Kálvin tér station.
Address of Hotel:
H-1053 Budapest, Kecskeméti u. 14.
Telephone: (36-1) 317-4111
Fax: (36-1) 318-3867
More information on the Hotel Mercure Corona webpage:
http://www.mercure-korona.hu/koronaangol/
HOTEL MERCURE DUNA
Highly recommended.
To reach Ericsson Hungary at Science Park:
- 5 minutes by public transport : one stop by tram 4 or 6
towards Buda side
- 3 minutes by car / taxi
- 10 minutes of walk over a long bridge (Petofi bridge)
Location of Hotel
Situated very near to the city centre, the Mercure Budapest Duna's
traditional "Mercure comfort" and truly friendly atmosphere provides a
much more comfortable stay.
Room rate: 75 EUR / night
>From the Airport:
On the way to the city centre on Üll?i út turn left to the Haller utca.
The distance from the Airport is approximately 16 Km.
>From the railway stations:
The metro line 2 from the Déli (Southern) railway station to the Kossuth
tér, than change to tram No 2 towards the south and alight at Boráros
tér. The same metro can also be used from the Keleti (Eastern) railway
station to Blaha Lujza tér, than change to tram No 4 or 6. From the
Nyugati (Western) railway station the tram No 4 or 6 leads straight to
the Boráros tér.
By car:
The highways M1 and M7 from Vienna and Lake Balaton lead you to the
Pet?fi híd from where you can see the hotel to the right. From the M0
across the Lágymányosi híd, than turn left. From Szeged on M5 highway
drive to the Könyves Kálmán körút, than turn to the Soroksári út.
By public transport:
The trams No. 2, 4, 6 and buses No. 23, 54, 15 and 12 stop at a walking
distances from the hotel. The metro line 3 (Ferenc körút station) is 5
minutes walk from the hotel
Address of the hotel:
H-1095 Budapest, Soroksári út 12.
Telephone: (36-1) 455-8300
Fax: (36-1) 455-8385
e-mail: h2025(a)accor-hotels.com
More information on the Hotel Mercure webpage:
http://www.mercure-duna.hu
Other possibilities: http://inside.ericsson.se/hotelguide Budape
Dear TC6 members,
The deadline for hotel registration in Libon ended yesterday. I managed to
get an extension of that deadline until September 13th. Please remember that
the hotel cannot guarantee rooms after that date. I would thank also that
those of you who come to the Lisbon meeting, but are not staying in the
Melia Hotel, please let me know.
Best regards
Augusto
Otto
Looks good!
May I make a few minor comments (which you are free to reject if they are
not to your liking)?
- Make "Surplus (or deficit)" "Estimated Surplus (or deficit)" [see note 1
below].
- Use the Roundup function on the break even number calculation.
- Put the contingency on all of the expenses not just the variable income
[see note 1 below].
- It might be worthwhile having two participant numbers: one for the full
fee paying participants (or equivalent) and one for all participants - use
the first in the income and the second in the costs. This may be
complicating things too much and I'd be interested in feedback as to whether
those numbers differ significantly.
Regards
Peter
Note 1 "Prediction is always hard, especially when it concerns the future" -
Niels Bohr
-----Original Message-----
From: Otto Spaniol [mailto:spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de]
Sent: 29 September 2004 08:05
To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: [ifip-tc6] (New) Accounting Information
Dear all,
the event request forms provided by IFIP are awful. This feeling is shared
by everyone. Nobody is able to give half way correct information about the
conference budget. This is a lot of unneccessary burden for TC and WG
chairs.
I promised to simplify that scheme and the first result is found in the
attachments.
There is:
- an empty sheet (don't care about the #DIV!0 in the before last line;
it will disappear when you fill the form)
- and a virtual example.
You may and should play around with the forms and tell me whether you
find them easy enough to use.
WG chairpersons should give it to prospective conference organisors.
Some comments are in order:
1. The document has been kept as simple as possible (fool-proof, hopefully).
You have to fill in only the figures in frames (light blue colours).
The other figures (in light yellow) will then automatically be
calculated.
2. A very crude approximation of registration fee is used:
Only for full paying participants, no early bird registration, no
special rate for members of diverse societies, no student fee etc.
It would be impossible to have those concrete figures well before the
event.
Thus if you estimate for example that the total registration fee
by students might be identical to, say, 10 full paying participants
then you should increase the number of expected full paying
participants accordingly. Similar for the variable expenses
per participant.
3. "Contingencies" are meant to be a reserve just to be on the safe side.
They are - according to IFIP - 10 percent of the variable cost
per participant and could, of course, be already taken into
account there. Nevertheless, since these costs are automatically
calculated
we can leave it in the document.
4. "Break even number of participants" should be clear but since I have
been asked several times about this:
This is the minimum number of full paying participants which will
be needed if the conference should not make a deficit (and if
all other parameters are valid).
You will see that it is wonderfully easy to play around and to determine
registration fees, fixed expenses,.. which are meaningful and which
may end up with a reasonable surplus.
It might be that the break even number will turn out to be negative!
In that
case you will have a serious problem with your budget: either the
registration fee is too low or ....
5. I didn't nclude information about loan and grants (since IFIP says that
in such a case "a more detailed budget information is needed). If you
want I can add a few lines for that purpose (and also for different
categories of registration but my first purpose was to keep
the document as simple as possible).
6. Conferences (and the sponsorship fee to IFIP) are calculated in full
days;
thus if the conference lasts 2,5 days then the fee to IFIP will be
calculated
on a 3-day basis.
Now:
Please check the new forms and give me your comments within the next two
weeks
(improvements, modifications, what is missing, what should be deleted,...).
I would then formally approve the new sheets in Bangkok and tell IFIP
secretariat that we will not any more use the old bullshit versions.
Best regards (and have fun with the new sheet)
Otto
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Dear all,
please find enclosed the formal invitation to meeting 2004/2 in Bangkok
(Thailand);
Nov. 21+22, 2004.
Another formal invitation letter will be sent by Vilas Wuwongse, our national
delegate from Thailand.
Please inform Vilas and myself about your attendance and about your
travel schedule.
Best regards
Otto
We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.
EWSN 2005
2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks
Istanbul, Turkey
January 31 - February 2, 2005
http://www.ewsn.org/
CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS
OVERVIEW OF WORKSHOP
After the successful completion of the 1^st European Workshop on
Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2004) in Berlin, Germany during Jan.
19-21, 2004, the 2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN
2005) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey during Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 2005.
The goal EWSN 2005 is to bring together researchers from different
backgrounds, from hardware to applications, to create a forum where
cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems, and the
future development of WSN functionalities can be discussed.
POSTER SESSION
The poster session enables authors to present their recent and ongoing
research in an interactive environment where authors and session
participants will be able to discuss and exchange ideas on recent
research topics.
We encourage contributions to the poster session with papers describing
original work in the same interest areas of the workshop including (but
not limited to):
· Hardware for WSN: transceiver concepts, wakeup radio, antenna design,
system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, battery
technology, energy scavenging.
· Communication protocols: MAC and link layer problems, routing and
transport protocols tailored for WSN, redundancy, data aggregation, and
mobility support; gateways to fixed Internet; providing functionalities
like localization and synchronization.
· Source coding techniques appropriate for WSN to support data fusion.
· Middleware for WSN: Configuration and installation support, lookup of
available functionalities, group communication, distributed algorithms
in WSN, harmonizing node-centric and data-centric addressing,
integrating WSN in middleware architectures like .NET.
· Security: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure
system engineering.
· Applications of WSN: novel applications and their requirements such as
medicine, environment control, etc.; experiences with real-world
applications.
· What part will WSNs play in realizing the visions of ubiquitous
computing & communication and ambient Intelligence.
· Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes,
measurements within sensor network testbeds.
· Modeling of WSN: models for WSN load/applications, mobility or channel
models.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
The submitted papers should be original papers on complete or ongoing
recent work that have not been previously published and are not
currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts
must be formatted according to the IEEE single-space double-column
standard conference format, except the font size, which must be 11 pt.
The maximum length of the manuscript is 4 pages, including text, figures
and references. All submissions must be in PDF or PostScript format, and
they should be sent by e-mail to both poster session co-chairs. The
submission should also include contact information of the corresponding
author.
The poster papers will appear in the proceedings of the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline:
December 1, 2004.
Notification of acceptance:
December 20, 2005
Camera-ready papers:
January 7, 2005
EWSN 2005 Conference:
January 31 - February 2, 2005
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Erdal Cayirci
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
TPC Co-Chairs:
Sebnem Baydere,
Yeditepe University, Turkey
Paul Havinga,
University of Twente, Netherlands
Poster Co-Chairs:
Ezhan Karasan,
Bilkent University, Turkey
Ibrahim Korpeoglu,
Bilkent University, Turkey
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For inquiries regarding poster sessions contact
Ezhan Karasan
(ezhan(a)ee.bilkent.edu.tr)
Ibrahim Korpeoglu
(korpe(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr)
For general inquiries:
info(a)ewsn2005.org
Workshop website:
http://www.ewsn.org/
Dear Otto,
My plans are to attend the meeting, arriving to Bagkok from Chenai (india)
on November 21 very early in the morning and leaving Bangkok on November 23.
Best regards
Ramon
> Dear all,
>
> please find enclosed the formal invitation to meeting 2004/2 in Bangkok
> (Thailand);
> Nov. 21+22, 2004.
> Another formal invitation letter will be sent by Vilas Wuwongse, our national
> delegate from Thailand.
>
> Please inform Vilas and myself about your attendance and about your
> travel schedule.
>
> Best regards
> Otto
> [attachment][attachment]
=========================================================================
Ramon Puigjaner
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica
07122 PALMA (Spain)
Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es
=========================================================================
Otto, Vilas
I'm very sorry to have to say that I will not be able to attend the TC6
meeting in Bangkok next month.
(The British Computer Society funds my attendance at one meeting in each BCS
financial year. This year's funds went on the Athens meeting, as the BCS
prefers that I go to the "nearest" meeting, if there are several to choose
from.)
I hope you have a "good" meeting
Regards
Peter
Peter Radford
UK Representative to IFIP TC6
T: +44 20 7446 1281
M: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com <mailto:Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com>
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Dear all,
the event request forms provided by IFIP are awful. This feeling is shared
by everyone. Nobody is able to give half way correct information about the
conference budget. This is a lot of unneccessary burden for TC and WG chairs.
I promised to simplify that scheme and the first result is found in the
attachments.
There is:
- an empty sheet (don't care about the #DIV!0 in the before last line;
it will disappear when you fill the form)
- and a virtual example.
You may and should play around with the forms and tell me whether you
find them easy enough to use.
WG chairpersons should give it to prospective conference organisors.
Some comments are in order:
1. The document has been kept as simple as possible (fool-proof, hopefully).
You have to fill in only the figures in frames (light blue colours).
The other figures (in light yellow) will then automatically be calculated.
2. A very crude approximation of registration fee is used:
Only for full paying participants, no early bird registration, no
special rate for members of diverse societies, no student fee etc.
It would be impossible to have those concrete figures well before the
event.
Thus if you estimate for example that the total registration fee
by students might be identical to, say, 10 full paying participants
then you should increase the number of expected full paying
participants accordingly. Similar for the variable expenses
per participant.
3. "Contingencies" are meant to be a reserve just to be on the safe side.
They are - according to IFIP - 10 percent of the variable cost
per participant and could, of course, be already taken into
account there. Nevertheless, since these costs are automatically calculated
we can leave it in the document.
4. "Break even number of participants" should be clear but since I have
been asked several times about this:
This is the minimum number of full paying participants which will
be needed if the conference should not make a deficit (and if
all other parameters are valid).
You will see that it is wonderfully easy to play around and to determine
registration fees, fixed expenses,.. which are meaningful and which
may end up with a reasonable surplus.
It might be that the break even number will turn out to be negative!
In that
case you will have a serious problem with your budget: either the
registration fee is too low or ....
5. I didn't nclude information about loan and grants (since IFIP says that
in such a case "a more detailed budget information is needed). If you
want I can add a few lines for that purpose (and also for different
categories of registration but my first purpose was to keep
the document as simple as possible).
6. Conferences (and the sponsorship fee to IFIP) are calculated in full days;
thus if the conference lasts 2,5 days then the fee to IFIP will be calculated
on a 3-day basis.
Now:
Please check the new forms and give me your comments within the next two weeks
(improvements, modifications, what is missing, what should be deleted,...).
I would then formally approve the new sheets in Bangkok and tell IFIP
secretariat that we will not any more use the old bullshit versions.
Best regards (and have fun with the new sheet)
Otto
